Annotation
OBJECTIVES
Modern Scottish Literature is renowned for its inventiveness and thematic scope. This course is designed to offer students an overview of the key texts in the national literature since the end of modernism: circa 1959.The texts are all selected for their suitability for class discussion and are all accessible and readily accessible.
ASSESSMENT
Classes are organised around discussion/micro-lectures of the assigned texts and assessment is on the basis of attendance (max 3 absences), participation (presentations) and submission of two position papers(1000 words each). MA students must submit a longer paper(details on application).
REQUIRED READING*
The Cone Gatherers-Robin Jenkins
The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
Magnus- George MacKay Brown 1982,Janine-Alasdair Gray
How Late it was, How Late- James Kelman
Bunker Man- Duncan McLean
Medea-Liz Lochhead
Morvern Callar- Alan Warner
Marabou Stork Nightmares- Irvine Welsh
So I am Glad- A.L.Kennedy
The Death of a Ladies' Man- Alan Bissett
* Texts are supplemented with ancillary readings where appropriate. The core texts listed as the basis of class discussions and must be read.